The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-15 00:00:00

IFEBOAT SERVICES. —During the storms , bf the past year the boats of the Natn ioal Lifeboat nst itution saved 417 persons from different wrecks on our coasts, The Institution also expended £l3,Bloaddition 2d. in to the same peri,d on lifeboat eEtab ishments, in 51 65. Cd. as rewards for s.iv ng 714 shi p wrecked granting .£l,? perions by its lifeboats, and other means. The Committee of the Institution eArnest'y A i'PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 137 lifeboat S establ i s hments. Contributions are received by all the L,n don and eountry bankers ; an d b y the ecretar Richard y, Lewis, at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi. ITER MAJESTY'S 'THEATRE, Sole Manager and Director, Mr. W. Harrison. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. THIS EVENING, ng and duri the week, the performances w ill commence with YOU K.N OW WHO. Followed by Gounod's Grand Opera, FAUST. Margarita, 3liss Louisa I'ync ; Faust, Mr. Sims Reeves. To-morrow (Wednesday) Evening, and Friday, Verdi's Grand Ok,era, TRA.VIATA. VioleCta, Madame Kenneth; Lemont,-r. Santley. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. Frivate Boxes, from 10s. Id.; Stalls, 7s. ; Dress Circle, 55.; ru„ , t C ircle, 45.; Iliner Boxes 3s. ; Gallery, Is. 8.,x Office ( pen from Ten till , Five. No charge tor booking places, nor tees to box-keepers. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE,- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH FOR GOOD ATURE. Messrs. G. Eelmore, Fitzjames , G . Wes on ; Misses Helen II °ward and R. Leclercq, Mrs. Vandenholl; Mrs. C. Melvi:le, ttc. After which, Shaksoere's Trage-ly of M %CRETE!. Mr. C resw ick ; Messrs Marston, R. Itoxby, G. Belmore , A Rayner, 3. F. Neville, Edmun d Phel p s, J. Neville, Bartleman, e Afieses Rebecca Isaacs, Emma Heywood, and 'Miss Atkinson, Doors open at ha. f-past Si x —Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET,- Lessee, ,Ir. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, T BE SUN AIN D THE WIND. After which, THE STRANGER. Messrs. Howe, Chip pendale, Farren, Compton, Rogers, Gordon, Braid, &c. ; Mesdames Beatrice, Keeley, Fitzwilliam, Moore, &c. Followed ty ON THE SLY. Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers, Gordon, &c. ; Mesdames Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, &c. And OUR MARY ANNE. hiss H. Lindley, Mr Clarke. To commence at. 7. ROYAL LYCEU:.I. THEATRE. Ender the sole management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, THE KING'S BUTTERFLY. Fan fan, the King's Butterfly, Mr. I. cchter. Messrs. Rytoret er,Wid- and, dicomb, Ch M'ln'tyre, Garden, Raymond, 3l C ifford, Collett; Misses Carlot a Lezlercq, M. Henradc, E. :..avenue, and B. Lavenue. Preceded, at 7, by NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Garden, Moreland, Collett; Miss Lavenue, uis. lee. Doors open at half-past 6 ; commence at 7. The Box-office open daily from ElLv,n till Five. KING'S BUTTERFLY. -LYCEUM THEATRE.—Fanfan, the King's Butterfly, d for Mr iliullTEß,—The most euccessful Drama produce years. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. — Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVE ENING minickM , BORN ay TO GOOD LUCK. faddy O'ltalrerty, r. Do urr. Atter which, THE STREET:3 Nelso OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. n, 11. F o rrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henr y Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynn?. NEW THEATRERO YAL, ADELPHI.- Sale PTolDriGtOr and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EI7E:NANG, DOING BANTING. Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Stephenson ; Mrs. Lewis and Miss A. Seaman. Mr. B. After which, MASKS AN D FACES. Triplet, Webster ; Peg Woffiagton. Mrs. Stirling (their original cha racters) ; Messrs. Bil.ington, It. Phillips, P. Pedford, Stuart, Eburne, C J. Smith, and Miss H. Simms. To conclue with THE COLLEEN HAWN. Myles (with ), Mr. d John Collins Messrs. Billingto a, R. Phillips, songs Stephenson, Eburne, Mssr, C. J. Smith :ND's. Alfred Mellon (Miss Woolgar), H. Simms, Mrs. Billing,ton, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATREI Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINENT TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA. This Popular Theatre is now Open. THIS EVENING, a new Musical Drama, entitled THE BARONET ABROAD AND THE RUSTIC PRIMA LONNA Mr. Flank Matthe s I Miss Constance Ro or den. After which, at a quar ter to Eight, a new and iginal Comedy Drama, in three acts , by J. Palgrave Simlsson.and 3l enti tled SY RILL A ; or, STEP BY STE V. Mr rs. Charles Mathews. To conclude with Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy Farce ot WOOD,OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charle s Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews. I , M se A gra D ,ef A ui H and IclBasAsicAbeCauSty, tlrlanEsceNndantEhNis! triouic ower, ad heroic amazonian courage, form the DelAlio p tripod from which the i ns piration of her genius throws a new spell even on Byron's 3IAZ EPPA, and who delights and encluins the Old s in herWo as she has astounded ed an d enthralled the New, appeargreat of MAZE I'PA EVERY NIGHT at ASTLEY'S, ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Nlanag.;eress. Mrs. Swanborouzh. Tins EVENING, WILFUL WARD. Messrs Parselle and Belford ; Miss Palmer. Followed by, at Eight, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Stoyle, James ; Mesdamcs Swanbor ugh and Mande s. To cDnelude with mxzErrA. Mesdames Raynham, Simpson, rte. GRATIS AND POST F . REE. E. MOSES and SONS' New Pamphlet, THE rulLosornY OF DRESS. ---- M OSES AN 1) SON E. respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted dstock of JUVENILE CLOT st HING. The newest tatirics are combined with the late and most fashionable designs, and the best workmanship. E. MOSES and SON give particular attention to this important branch of their business, and they can with confidence affirm that the prices Are such as must satisfy the most economical. Tnis depart ment isM a convenience part of the premises, which will be tound a great tor ladies and children, ___-------- - V MOSES AND SON 112,4 • respectfully invite public attention ll-asorted to their large and dreadful moment, were a positive confession of his guilt. Whether, as Dr. KAPPEL seemed to think, upheld by the hope of reprieve, or whether from re• luctance to admit his guilt to his fellow-men, 'MULLER persistently replied to the adjurations that were addressed to him with declarations of his innocence. It is true that after a recent visit from one of the Sheriffs, who found him reading the Bible, and reminded him that the promises of mercy were dependent upon repentance and confession, t' at he remarked that confession to man was use less, an observation that seemed to indicate he had something to tell if he would. But to the moving appeals of Dr. KArrEL he continued to repeat the same assertions of innocence, although his kind visitor told him plainly he believed he had a hand in the crime, if not the only criminal. Only, at the last moment, when with the fatal rope round his neck, and his feet resting on the frail supports about to be drawn away, were Dr. RAPPEL'S Efforts successful, and MULLER, shrinking seem ingly from facing his Maker with the reiterated lie, said firmly and plainly, " Yes, I did it." Some versions say that he added that no other person was concerned in it, but whether or no, the admission of his own guilt was the great point, and this was conclusive and unmistakeable. So much was Dr RAPPEL overcome by the emotion attending the scene, and the almost unexpected success of his last appeal, that he nearly fainted from agitation. And so ends this dismal story, and those who, from mis taken kindness, would have sought to mitigate the culprit's doom are now finally con vinced of the justice of his sentence. The conviction of MULLER'S guilt was almost unanimous, and for the most part those who denied that he was the only criminal, believed with Dr. KArrEL that he was concerned in the murder. His confession was the only thing to be hoped for to set the point definitively at rest, for, although the chain of evidence had not a link mis sing, still there will always remain some who are hard to convince, and others who, appalled by the nature of the punishment, shrink from the respon sibility of condemning a possibly innocent man to a violent and shameful death. No crime of late years has created the same intense and general excite ment. From the first announcement of the murder to the tragedy of yesterday, all London was moved by it, Even in quiet byeways and out of the way suburbs the curiosity and anxiety:to obtain tidings of the culprit's last moments were intense, and the ordinary channels of news could not be obtained fast enough. When it was known that MULLER had confessed his guilt there was a sensible relief in the public mind, for however great the moral conviction, an absolute admission deepens and strengthens it. So much have we recoiled from the Draconian theory of a past generation, and eo deeply has the public mind been impressed with the tales of innocent victims to a mistaken convic tion dying on the scaffold, that judge, jury, and public would now be far more willing to acquit a guilty man than to condemn unjustly, though, in truth, as the Lord Chief Baron very justly observed, both are great misfortunes in the administration of national justice. Still we must not hope or rely on always obtaining such an admission, and justice would soon stand still if murderers knew that their silence would ensure their escape from the gallows. The man who deliberately plans to take the life of a fellow-creature is not likely to hesitate about tell ing a lie, and it would cost him very little to deny his guilt, and to persist in that denial in spite of every entreaty. One thing is forcibly shown by the circumstances attending MULLER'S death and confession, and that is the injury which is done to the criminal and the public by the present uncer tain action of the law. Dr. KArrEL declared his convictio❑ that the Lope of life was so strong in MuLLEP, that he had made up his mind not to con fess until the very last moment, and this deter" mhaation, as we have seen, he fully carried cut. Reprieves and commutations have become so fre quent that the criminals rely upon them, and are ❑aturally reluctant to speck the words that would for the most part seal their doom. Thus the deters rent influence, which is the great argument in favour of capital punishment, is in a great measure lost, and, when inflicted, the culprit refuses to make that confession which is the only atonement in his power. Wise and good men may naturally object to capital punishment in any shape, but so long as it is the law of the land, it should be administered with firmness as well as with mercy. The band of Justice should not tremble when she uses her sword, however reluctant she may be to wield it. However forcible the arguments against the extreme penalty, a civilised community may well shrink from breaking down that barrier with which ,men in all ages have thought it necessary to protect the sacred temple of life ; and when we reflect on the number and violence of the temptations which beset the uncon trolled passions of men, the love of gain, the thou sand frauds, and plots, and intrigues to which our complicated social machinery gives rise—anger, jealousy, revenge, and all their attendant motives, we shall hesitate to remove the warning influence of a public death. At least not at a time when the whole tendency of society is too much in favour of extenuating the crime, when the rigid rules of right and wrong are too likely to be forgotten in the desire to apologise or atone for the transgressor, No one can read of MULLER'S last moments without pro found compassion for the man, and a deep sense of his awful position ; but we must not forget that his own guilt brought him to that appalling situation. We must not forget that he hes made a happy home desolate, has sent a good and honourable man to a death more violent and more hurried than his own, and that to the natural regret for the loss of a friend and relative he has added the terrible shock of so sudden and so dreadful a catastrophe. He has gone with his sins to a higher tribunal, and the one feeling of all Christian men will be a hope that he may there be found worthy of mercy ; but in our narrow and shortsighted sphere it behoves us to remember that the command to respect life comes from a higher authority than our own, and while we hesitate about condemning a guilty man, there is no doubt that the criminal infringes the laws of heaven as well as of earth, when he renches on the command, " Thou shalt do no murder." The uninitiated in such matters would be sur prised if they were to find out all the lets and hind rances that are put in the way of the poor, when struggling to gain their daily bread. It would seem as if the laws and enactments of this country, so perfect in many reppects, and so admirably adapted for the people they appertain to, had a par ticular exceplicn in regard to the clauses which affect destitution. Well might Lord STANLEY say the otter dsy, that to pauperise a man in England was to degrade him. It needed not one, of the noble lord's observation and experience, to detect this flew in our social system, and this glaring evil that lurks among our laws and statutes. The case of Mr. BAUYARD, at Cambridge, is one which is most extraordinary, and aptly represents the anomalies that are continually presenting themselves in our poor-law arrangements. A man named PARKER had worked for him in his manufactory, and when he died Mr. BAIIYARD naturally felt an interest in his family. He met the widow accidentally, and she then informed him that she was desirous of pro ; ceeding to Leeds, where she had frie de. To enable her to do so Mr. BAUYARD gave her a sovereign to make up the necessary sum for her journey. From this simple circumstance, however, great con fusion arose. The poor woman became chargeable to the union -at Leeds, and there she related the generosity of Mr. BAUYARD. As this latter was a guardian, the authorities at Leeds became vir tuously indignant, and prosecuted him for having infringed the statute which prohibits any one en gaged as officer under the Poorelaw Board from giving or causing to be given any assistance, pecu• niary or otherwise, to persons, in order that they may,by that assistance, declare themselves destitute. In consequence, Mr. BAUYARD incurred the penalty of a fine. The Cambridge guardians consulted the Poor-law Board as to the advisability of their carry ing the matter to a higher court. Of course the answer to such a question may be guessed. Ani mated with the true spirit of red-tapism, and fired with the zaal of precedent, the Board returned for reply that they had no power to interfere in the decision of the court on the matter at all, but they were of opinion that " the expenditure of Union funds for the defence of a guardian charged with offences against the poor-law was illegal." In con sequence of this utterance of the oracle, the Cam bridge guardians forbore to press the case, or else they had intended to carry it to the superior courts. Can anything be more absurd than such an occur rence, and does it not prove in a striking manner how faulty is the system which is supported by such aids and preserved by such means? Why should a ma►n be prevented from exercising his feelicgs of benevolence because he happens to be a guardian ? Is it to be understood that it is as if he was enrolled a member of the Secret Tribunal, bound to carry out its mandates, and forbidden to interfere with any other concerns than those which relates to its immediate province ? Is it necessary that, to be a worthy guardian and a faithful servant of the Poor-law Board, he must sink feeling, stifle conscience, and renounce independence ? It is strange to note how very successful has been the crusade waged against penury, indigence, and want by the votaries of the new regime, and how effectually they have made the Unions the subjects of terror to all who are threatened with the likelihood of being immured therein. No prison is ever looked upon with such feelings of horror , loathing, and detestation. To gain bread many commit crimes to become immured in the one, while many, on the contrary, starve rather than enter in or remain in the other. In a Christian country it seems most strange to class one thus above abject misery and complete destitution, but so it is, and the stigma is affixed to our society so much as to make one ashamed of upholding such a mockery of justice and profanation of mercy. Numberless are the instances which accumulate around us to prove the dread which the poor enter tain of the Union, and the approaching inclement season will multiply them tenfold. It is all very well for the effluent to descant upon their likes and dislikes for this or that mode of living or choice of occupation, but those of whom we speak have pro. claimed their feelings and made known their senti ments on life's worst agonies and death's most dreary advent. It is indeed in the form of the king of terrors that the stern messenger seeks out their shivering frames in their unfurnished rooms, de void of food and firs, and amid the many dreary scenes which every year gives rise to the ruling motive that seems to actuate the greater part of these hapless sufferers is their unconquerable dread of the workhouse. The other day a coroner's inquest was held on the bc.dy of a little girl who died in the greatest want, which aggravated the disease under which she sank, The jury returned a verdict that her death was oc casioned by want of the common necessaries of life. A similar case was that of a❑ infant literally starved to death, and the parents observed that the deceased had been fed by halfpenny worth's of arrowroot that they procured at any hour of the day or night as they could get the means to do so. It is the old, old story still throughout all of these distressing incidents the poor have an insuperable horror of entering the poorhouse, and those with families especially dread it. Surely something is fundamently wrong in a system whose workings are so faulty and so unsatis factory. A man died the other day of destitution, and those who afforded him some relief deposed that he would not be persuaded to enter the workhouse, declaring that nothing should induce him to do so. Life after life falls a sacrifice, death after death swells the dreary list of those who carry their dislike te such establishments to the borders of the grave, and only leave it on the confines of that other world which knows no distinction between rich and poor, but where all are equal, from Divas to LAZARUS. It seems as if no multiplication of instances can or will impress those most immediately connected with the workings of such matters . ; but has not society at large any interest in the fate of these hapless sufferers, and cannot any philanthropic persons take up the question with interest and good will ? The reforms that have taken place in many social affairs of late years have been worthy and memorable. The factory women and children are now released from the pressure of much overwork, the condition of those who labour at unhealthy trades has been greatly improved, the arrange• ments that concern the madhouses and lunatic asylums, both public and private, are placed upon a much better footing ; but why should it be consi dered that the poor are not to be relieved and tended in a more pleasing fashion. It is well to enter into detail, because it is the principle that is wrong, and it is proved in the practice in such a manner that if one rose from the dead he could do no more to persuade us. Perhaps the best way of settling the question would be to ask, would those who frame and fashion all these devices for the poor choose any of such arrangements for themselves, their families or friends, if He ss ho gives all worldly goods suddenly deprived them of their possessions and sent them forth to beg in the wilderness of the world. It is a scandal to the wealthiest com. munity that poverty should thus be ground down under our feet and treated with such con tumely and reproach. Its ills are numerous enough without these mortifying additions, and it is not upon the principle that actuates the other regula tions of our laws that for fear one undeserving per son should receive relief the young, the aged, and the sickly are to starve in our streets and perish miserably by our roadsides. Such conduct is a prostitution of the name of charity, and it cannot be called in accordance with common sense or simple justice. The Princess's Theatre. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—A paragraph having appeared in Me Sun, to the effect that a rumour is in circulation that my tenure of this theatre is about to cease, in conse quence of my violation of conditions of the agree ment under which I hold the theatre, I beg to state that no such conditions exist, and that the report is utterly false and without foundation. I am happy to say, that in all my business trans actions with my landlord,' am on the most friendly relations; end, believing the report to be as in jurious to him as to myself, your courteous insertion of my flat denial to the rumour will greatly oblige. I —Your obedient servant, G. J. VINING Nov ember 14. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. :ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIAN. NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (Evening). (Via Greencastle.) The Richmond Sentinel, the organ of the Con ederate Government, recommends the arming of the slaves. General Hood, with 30,000 men, is reported to have crossed the Tennessee river, and to be moving northward. the Confederates have captured the gunboat Undine on the Tennessee river. Forrest, Buford, Chalmers, and Bell are concen , trating their forces. They have 14 cannons besides the gunboat Undice. Deserters state that orders had been read to the Confederate troops to the effect that Hood would cross the Tennessee at Bridgeport and march north , ward, whilst Forrest attacked Johnsonville, Southern papers say that Hood is now probably in middle Tennessee. They anticipate great results from his movements. Beauregird's headquarters are at Gadsen. The Federal garrison of Atlanta is reported to number 6,000 men. Grant's troops are building log houses. Mr Seward has informed the Mayors of New York and Buffalo that the State Department had information from Canada that a conspiracy existed to fire the principal Northern cities on the Presi dential election day. The Mayor of New York in formed Mr Seward in reply that he had no fear of incendiary threats being carried out. He was, how• ever, prepared for the emergency. The D.Acnocratic press charge the Administration with fabricating the report in order to put cities under martial law. Considerable excitement prevails at Ogenaburg, a raid from the Canadian frontier being appre hended. General Butler has arrived at New York, giving rise to a supposition that he will assume the com mand during the elections. Governor Seymour has issued a proclamation, appealing to all parties to unite in allaying undue excitement during the election. The S:ate officers will me that every man has a free ballot, and no military organisations will be permitted near the polls. Military interference will be resisted with the full brce of the law. General Dix has issued another proclamation ; stating that no military will be embodied around the polls. The military will, if called upon, aid the civil authorities. Several Democratic electioneering agents have addressed reports to Governor Seymour, stating that the Administration and military authorities put every possible difficulty in the way of their ob• taining soldiers' votes, and that they give unfair facilities to the Republican agents. The privateer Chickamauga, which left Wilming ton on the 27th, has burnt the ship Shooting Star and two barks off C.lpe Delaware. The Tallahassa has destroyed several vessels off Black Island. MONTREAL, Nov. 4 The Judges have refused to grant a writ of Habeas Corpus for the St. Alban raiders, on the ground that they were still under the magistrates' jurisdiction, and that no commitment had been yet made. reserved for an enormously wealthy and spiritually handsome country equire turned poetaster,one Roland Lansdell—a sort of cross between Lara and the Heir of Redclyffe ! With this difference, however, that he has no such maddening reasons for remorse as the former, and certainly no such justifying sense of religious truth as the latter. Isabel, it must be nnderstood, however, at once, is neither a bigamist nor yet an adulteress. Shu la so far true to her un congenial spouse, the surgeon of Graybridge I Bat—with incorrigible naughtiness (there is evidently no severer term for it in the novelist's imagination)—she carries on a kind of a half intellectual, half emotional flirtation with Roland Lsnsdell, of Meidred, in Midlandshire. IL comes to nothing,after all—this flirtation,in the way of a guilty liaison. Isabel falls not complete'y under the glamour of Roland's fascination. She preserves (save only in her secret heart) her conjugal purity. Roland, failing to persuade her to elope with him from her husband, while dogging her footsteps, gets murdered by Isabel's re turned-convict father. The violent death of Roland Lansdell, occurring at the close of the book, just immediately after the death in his bed (from a fever caught i❑ his professional practice) of George Gilbert, of whom, by the way, we are really glad to get rid at the last by any means the novelist might have cared to contrive for that merest nonentity of character—one that is from first to last insufferably dull and tedious. Jeffeon, the gardener, may grieve for " Master Jarge " if he likes, and as it befits him ; but, for the life of us, we can't. The moral of the story seems to be little short of high treason, on the:part of Miss Braddon, to her own craft,t hat is,—the craft of theNovelist,the Romancist, the Fictionist. The lady spoken of in one of Mr Disraeli's now almost forgotten political stories as having guano'd her mind with French novels could hardly have more seriously imperilled her character than Isabel Sleaford, afterwards Isabel Gilbert, is here represented as having done—by her excessive addition as a reader to our own by no means intrinsically dele terious masterpieces of imaginative literature, world-famous fictions, let us say, like those of Mr Charles Dickens or of Sir Edward Lytton. Ii Edith Bombay is mentioned once in "The Doctor's Wife" as having haunted the memory of Isabel to a great extent prejudicially—she is mentioned scores upon scores of times until we become abso lutely fatigued by the continually recurring reference Otherwise than in minor particulars such as these, the work before us is almost uninterrup'edly en tertaining. Upon its successful completion as a work Miss Braddon is here entitled to—what we would now venture to offer to her—meaning our very, earnest and cordial congratulations. Can you Forgive Her r By Anthony Trollope No. XI. Chapman and Hall. Although Phiz's name is retained upon the cover of this popular serial as its avowed illustrator, another than Phiz has evidently contributed to the current instalment its two very clever and inn geniously pencilled embellishments. " Great Jove" —one of the two—is especially good, as a glimpse of a House of Commons Interior, with Great Lye himself (meaning Lord Palmerston) smiling complacently as he reclines in an easy attitude, with his hat pulled down over his eyes, on the Treasury bench. Before the number closes we learn without one particle of interest or satisfaction — that that horrid, worldly minded, selfish, horsey vulgarian, George Vavasor, has been returned as M.P. for the metropolitan constituency of the Chelsea Districts. Hsppily, we count upon his being either summarily unseated upon the charge of gross bribery and pot-house corruption, or by the still more sweeping announcement of a dissolution. Alice is not yet out of the thralls of her sordid Betrothed. Let her bat once more extricate herself from them and we may Forgive Her. Certainly not before then ! Lady Glencora seems to be still going, going—though she is not yet gone as the unfaithful wife of the high and mighty Mr Palliser. Of the divinely handsome scapegrace Burgo Fitzgerald, who is wickedly tempting her to an adulterous elopement, we hear more than once, in these open ing chapters of Volume Two, though we see nothing of him. The situation attained in this de velopment of the plot is such that Two heroines, atd not one, simply, must in the end apparently claim the reader's forgivenness. MASKED ROBBERS.—Three yoang men were ap. prehended on Sunday at Wa.deley, a village near Sheffield, on the charge of committing a very daring rob bery in that neighbourhood. The prisoners are named re spectively Hutchinson, Chapman, and Bramhall, and the circumstances out:of which the charges arose are briefly these :—On Saturday night while a woman named Bibbs, who lives at Wadsley, was in the house during the absence of her husband. a man with his face concealed by a mask suddenly entered at the open dc. or. He seized her by the throat, threw her into a chair, and stood menacingly over her, and two other men, also masked, entered the house and went up into the bedrooms. Mrs Bibbs, who was dread fully alarmed on account of her children, who were in bed, attempted to get up, but the ruffian drew a clasp-knife and threatened to murder her if she made the slightest noise. The affrighted woman asked what the men wanted, and the fellow replied, " We want your money," and h© then inquired for her husband's wages. Sho told the men, who were now together, that ner husband had not drawn any Rages, and earnestly entreated to be allowed to go upstairs to her children, but the men refused, and the one who had the knife said ha would cut her throat if she made any noise. He appeals were cantinued for some time, and one of the fellows remarked that if the eldest child awoke it would not scream twice, as he would cut its head off. This scene con tinued minutes, when the men made off with all the money (a few pounds) there had been in the house, and a large quantity of wearing apparel, to obtain which they had ran sacked all the drawers and boxes. The men compelled Mrs Bibbs, upon pain of violence, to say that she would not leave the house for half an hour after they had gone. The robbery created a great sensation in the village and the ad jacent town of Sheffield. They were brought up and re manded yesterday. M. BERRYER SKETCHED BY M. CORVRENIN.• M. Timon, in his book " Les Orateurs," thus de scribes the oratory of M. Berryer :—Yes, since Mirabeau nobody has come up to Berryer—neither Gen. Foy, who recited rather than improvised, and who did not unite close reasoning to the powerful voice and the vast eloquence of Berryer ; nor Leine, who had only harmonious and pathetic accents ; nor De Serre, who, heavy and embarrassed in his exordium, only at intervals utteroi the cry of oratorical passion ; nor Casimir Perier, who was vehement only in apostrophising; nor Benjamin Constant, whose talent had more flexibility than movement and energy ; nor Manuel, whose judgment was sure and bold, but who was more of a reasoner than an orator, and who never could, like Ber ' ryer, produce an involuntary thrill of wonder and delight. Nature has been favourable to Berryer. His stature is not tall, but his fino and expressive features reflect all the pass sions of his soul. He fascinates you b y his glance and by , his gesture, marvellously noble, like his language. He is eloquent in his whole person. He takes possession of the tribune as if he were its mas ter—l should say its despot. But what ho has boyoni all other speakers in the Chamber is his incomparable voice—the first, of beauties for actors as for orators. It is not, however, to his external qualities that he owes his pre eminence. He is a master in the art of oratory. The gene rality of speakers abandon themselves to the vivacity of their inspirations; and in their digressions they have now and then some fine bursts, but they are deficient in method. We do not always see, and they themselves do not know, whence they come and whither they go. They halt on the journey as if to reconnoitre the road. But what makes Berryer superior to them all is, that from the very begin ning of his discourse he marks from an elevated point the obj :et ho aims at. He does not abruptly attack his adver sary—he begins by tracing round him many lines of cir cumvallation ; he dislodges him from all his positions; he deceives him by skilful marches ; he approaches him gra , dolly ; he follows him up ; he presses him, lays hold of him, and binds him round and round in the coils of his arguments. This method is the one employed by great minds. It would, however, soon weary an auditory so inattentive as a French Chamber, if M. Berryer did Lot keep their interest awake by the charm of his voice, the animation of his gesture, and the nobleness of his diction. The Hon. Lloyd Kenyon is recovering from his recent severe illness. THE HANDEL FESTIVAL is due at the Crystal Palace in 1865; the date of it, however, is not yet fixed, HERR JOACHIM will revisit England next season. The fafrie asserts that England intends calling upon the Powers to protest collectively against the capture of the Florida, and to support the claims of Brazil. CRYSTAL PALACE. —ONE SHILLING I)AY, MON. DAY, Nov. 14.—Admissions on payment, 676 ; ditto by season tickets, 868 ; total visitors, 1,544. About £24,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday, but 80,000 soveroirs were withdrawn for Alexandria, WINTEkt STOCK. MOSES AND SON'S •"SANDRINGHA3I" DANISH WRAPPER vitroduced bsTylehecroivsertchoealr'73erstheansdeasmoonst ashion e 1, - 1 MOSES AND SON'S j_l4 • ItEADY-3IADE and BESPOKE CLOTHING for all classes and all ages. MOSES AND SON'S • CELEBRATED "INDISPENSABLE" SUIT. from 30s. MOSES AND SON'S E • HOSIERY and DRAPERY, for all classes and all ages. __---_ E . M OSES AN D BATS AND CAPS, SON' f v r all c asses and all ages. _ ___ "I: 4 1 MOSES AND SON'S • BOOTS and SHOES, for all classes and all ages. L'A MOSES AND S N'S • OUTFITS, for all classes, all ages, and all climates. 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JOHN SCOTT, sole 1„!..,,ent. irrilE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN, ,, _EL Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, gnu be had Every Evening of G. it. GI.F.NIE, News AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. T HE LATESTI. EDITION of " THE SUN" Isg-NejZ\uv W. b , ' ( l ) e n w s a p s a 1 1 3 3 u e r b l A i s as gent e r o y i E c v , n e \ n , e i sbtly_ HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T His DAY.—Mornin g, 21'. 4'3m.—Afternoon, 3h. 8m T:).M0R8.0 . w.-Morning, 3a. 28tn.—Afternoon, 38. 50. n, , r . 44 4 ,, • L- 5 - 1 ii, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 15, 1664 The last scene in the great social tragedy w hi c h has s° vividly excited the interest of the metropolis was yesterday played our, and the murderer of Mr J3ITGGS went to his account with all the grim and ghastly formalities of death on the gallows• Thoas about h:m had little hope that any admission from the culprit's own lips would attest the justice of his sentence, however fervently it might be desired both on his own account and on that of others. Ilappi4 at the very last moment his inflexible re serve gave way, and his last words to the kind minister of his own faith who attended him at that rHE SUN, LOICLOIV, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1864 . . LITERATURE NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (Morning). It is rumoured that Sherman is moving eastward 'tom Atlanta. it is reported from Washington that Butler will temporarily supersede General Dix, who will be retained to cooperate with him. No official announcement has yet been made as to the reason of General Ilutler'd presecco in New York. The steamer Lady Stirling has been captured. The Canadian steamer Belgian from Portland on the sth inst. arrived at Greencastle stiortly before 11 a.m. to-day. The mob broke up the M‘Clellan meeting at Bal. timore. A meeting of merchants and bankers has been held at Wall-street in favour of President Lincoln. The privateer Olanten has captured the bark Empress Theresa. Gold 1381 per cent. prem. The Commissioners sent to Washington by Governor Seymour, report that the Adminietration have refused their demands on behalf of the State of New York for the surrender of the State agents, for trial by the State authorities . COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (Evening.) Gold 1371 per cent- premium. Exchange on London, 256 ; do. Paris, 2 7; ; Stocks steady ; New York Centrals, 122 ; Illinois, 126 ; Erie, 1001 ; 5.20 Bonds, 1001. THE ELECTIONS AT GENEVA. GENEVA, Nov. 15. The elections of the Grand Cuuncil have resulted in a victory for the Independents, who will have a majority of 20 in that assembly. FRANCE. PARIS, Nov, 15. The Constitutionnel of this morning, in an article signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, analyses the late speech of General La Mariners, to which it gives its entire approval. Bourse, Nov. 14.—The market has not been so firm as on Saturday, and prices are rather lower. Threes, for the Account, are now at 65f. 20e. and "lobilier at 892 f 30c. Railway Market also heavy. The market closed ae follows : 4i per Cents. 92 Italian L0an...... 65 20 Do. end month Do. en d month.... Go 20 3 per Cents Do. end dmmotoinlite. h r 89065 _lO Ne, itu , ,: si Credit I\ a l n exicaa .... 50 50 81 Do. end month.... 915 Austrian .. Bank Shares 3105 Spanish Threes.... 47 25 Credit 1 , oncier 1175 Rome Debt Roman RAILWAY S ' A Cash. ccount. Orleans 835 -- d' 840 Northern .... Lyons and Mediterranean 882 50 5 . . 88 Southern • • 585 W estern Eastern .., . Sardinian 31 7• 50 .. 315 ..-• I Austrian .. Lorrbard North of Spain Sara to Barcelona .. .. .. 431618060 —2 - 5 •...: 43 1 46 7 (5 5 ) --- The Stock Exchange Committee have anointed Thursday, 17th November , a s pecial settling d%y in the following securities :—The Aberaman Iron Works (Du:lite:l) (late Crawshay Bailey's), for transactions only entered into on and after the o,h September—quotation not asked for ; also in the New £5O Shares of the International Bank (Limited). In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days there has not been much 1 animation. The operations in tea have been post poned until to-day, when a large quantity will be offered for public competition. Sugars have been in moderate request at steady prices; while a fair business has been transacted in coffee and rice. Tallow has been in more demand, chit fly for hom e consumption, and prices for both present and for ward delivery have shown an upward movement. The Clyde has arrived from Melbourne with £68,000. Miss Braddox's New Romance. The Doctor's Wife. By the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret." Three Vols. John Maxwell and Co. " Another and another"—of Miss Braddon's fictitious narratives—" still succeeds." Succeeds in more senses than one. Succeeds (the one the other) in rapid sequence. But succeeds also in the sense (each in due time) of instant popularity. We should begin to have serious anxiety lest this singularly accomplished authoress might be overtasking her imagination injuriously, by the extraordinary strain she has unquestionably been putting upon it within the laat three or four years, but that we recognise with peculiar gratification the fact that her artistic capacities evidence very distinct and appreciable advancement. As a work of art, as a contribution to imaginative literature, her last work is in many respects her best, It lacks the horrible glamour, no doubt which enveloped as with a mephitic atmosphere the scenes and creatures depicted by her pen of fascination in " Lady Audley's Secret." It cannot be pronounced as, on the whole, quite so enthralling, from first to last, as " Aurora Fioyd "—Aurora remaining still to our thinking the first and fore most among all Miss Braddon's heroines. But, as a work of art—it is bat right that we should here re-assert this vary emphaticall2 —both as a work of art and as a more highly elaborated and strenously thought-out contribution to imaginative literature, " The Doctor's Wife" is beyond either of those celebrated hisioriettes. To begin with—it is not (although unmistakeably, as well as avowedly, from the hand of Miss Braddon) a Sensational Novel. Nay, it is not only not Sensational•—it is directly derisive of the Sensational School of Modern Novelists conspicuous among whom, of course, stands quite notoriously, the authoress herself, In testimony of its satirical character in this way as a good-humouredly censorious com mentary upon the extravagance of literary sensa tionalism, it is only nectssary that we should refer —and refer, moreover (as we can) in the highest terms of commendation—to the singularly humour ous portraiture of Sigismund Smith, the Penny Novelist—in its way, as a humeurous portraiture, an unquestionable masterpiece. " the Doctor's Wife," in point of fact, reveals in our authoress an eminently delightful sense of the ludicrous. A sense of the ludicrous so poignant, indeed, at times as to be just fairly irresistible. Of this fact the every touch (even the minutest) applied to the delineation of Sigismund Smith, aff)rds triumphant attestation. As to the mere verbal facilities of word-painting, Miss Braddon had already, of course, supplied her readers with abundant proofs of her capabilities in that direction as a vividly realistic woman of-lettere. " A nice derangement of epitaphs," as Mrs Maloprop expresses it, being among her most easily recognis able characteristics as a writer of fiction. It is no marvel in the leant, therefore, when we find her, here, once more, by some apt choice of words or phrases, realising instantane ously a whole scene or locality—city or sylvan it matters little which. We remember the per fumed cloister of the Lime Avenue, murmuringly musical with bees,in "Lady Audley's Secret"—we recall to mind the trelissed lodge under the fra• grantly festooned eaves of which that pitiless horse-jockey husband of Aurora Floyd's coolly smokes his tobacco, looking out for the advent of the travelling carriage—and we in consequence welcome here as the merest matters of course those singularly slight bat marvellously sufficient freaks and turns of the pen by which the same writer contrives at moments to sketch a scene in a sentence. As evidence of which—are we not with her in imagination in the early morning out upon the pavements of the London suburb, at her momentary mention, quite casually as it were, of " the clattering tin pails and the slopping of milk," there blending pleasantly, she reminds us, with the cry of the milkman. It is, as a realistic touch of phraseology, like Mrs Beecher Stowe's realisation of the raw windy day blowing in through an inch open window, where, in " Uncle Tom's Cabin," she writes of the curtain " flopping and snapping" in the uncomfortable current of air. Accus tomed though we had become to these minute, though not by any means wholly insignificant excel lencies of style in Miss Braddon, W 3 acknowledge ourselves to have been here fairly taken by sur prise, upon the recognition of her nice appreciation and vivid sense of the ludicrous. The character of Sigismund Smith alone, would be quite sufficient to make good her claim to be regarded as a humorist. The whole conception of that character is, in simple truth, unmistake ably and delightfully humorous. But, apart from Sigismund, the book under notice has other, and some among them hardly less distinct evi eences of Miss Braddon's lively and exhilarating sense of the ridiculous. Take, for aumple, her first mention of tt:e eldest among her new heroine's brothers—that very type or arch.txemplar of the genus— HOBBLED EH OY ! The person who had admitted them was a boy who had just arrived at that period of life when boys are most obnoxious. 119 had ceased to be a boy pure and simple, and not yet pre sumed to call himself a young man. Rejected on one side by his juniors, who found him arrogant and despotic, mooting strange and unorthodox theories with regard to marbles, and evincing supreme contempt for boys who were not familiar with the latest vaticmalion of the sporting pro pheti in Bell's Life and the Sunday Times; and flouted on the other hand ,by his seniors, who offered him half pence for the purchase of hardbake, and taunted him with base insinuations 'when he was seized with a sudden fancy for going to look at the weather in the middle of a atrong cheroot— the hobbledehoy sought vainly for a standing place upon the social scale, and finding nono, became a misanthrope, and wrapped himself in scorn as in a mantle. For a purely comic delineation, however, com mend us to Mr. Sigismund Smith, as we have him here pourtrayed for our amusement, time and again, in various parts of these three volumes, by the ex hilarating pen of Miss Braddon. It is peculiarly and especially as a Novel of Character that " The Doctor's W ife" is remarkable. It is not in the popular acceptation of the term, in any way a Sensation Story, Nay, as already indicated, it is for the most part the reverse of a Sensational story—being, to some extent (that is through the medium of Sigismund Smith's character), comically sarcastic upon the matter of what is called, for the nonce, Sensationalism. The chief, prevailing, para. mount merit of The Doctor's Wife as a work of art in imaginative literature, being the highly appre ciated and subtly diminutive delineation of The Doctor's Wife—that is, of the Doctor's Wife con sidered, not as a Book. but as a Character —lsabel Slsaford is the maiden name of this new heroine of domestic romance. Her father, ostensibly at the outset a barrister, not only brieflese but hard up, eventually turns out to be no barrister at all, but a low scoundrel who begins life with systematic forgery and ends his career by perpetrating a brutal assassination. Separated from her father upon the first detection of his forgeries—separated afterwards from the rest of her family, from her common place stepmother and those three vulgar cubs her half-brothers—lsabel, after the fashion of so many young girls who are doomed, somehow or another, as best they can, to make their own way in the world entirely for themselves, becomes a governess. It is while she is a governess that the young Provincial Surgeon (Mr George Gilbert) —from her marriage with whom the book takes its title—proposes for her hand, and without very roach difficulty on her part, but also, it eliculi be said, without, on her side, one particle of love, obtains it. George Gilbert's character and home we cannot but regard as very pitilessly delineated. Insomuch so Unit we can hardly for the life of us very much blame Isabel for becoming bored almost to death by the tedium of both the one and the other. Sorely, never was there a less home-like house-room than that horrid parlour at the surgeon's dwelling. And as for the young surgeon's insa tiable appetite for rank spring onions and knobby, prongy radishes as a relish with the cheese at supper well, really, it becomes even to the reader of the tale, a some thing just simply insufferable. George, how ever, the onien•munchiag surgeon at Gray bridge-- a good-natured comely young buxum animal, with. out two ideas worth speaking of in his head—is not the hero of the book ! That high position being MIT r 1~~~ HER MAJESTY. nv 14 , ikt WINDSOR CASTLE, 11'1' by theft Her Majesty the Queen , accompanied l e e Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Of vv_n rs . and Princess Helena, went t o Claremont this IV ing, and visitod the Queen M arie Anaelie. 0 The suite consisted of the Countess of M he 11(3°' OO the Hon. Caroline Cavendish , Colonel t Hardiuge, and Major Teesdale. h $ Olll4 Her Majesty went by specia l train otl an d Western Railway to the Teddington statioet drove from thence to Claremont and back. . 11 c8 0 Visit of tin Queen and P r ince and 131.1- of Wales to Claremont. va 08 11 : Her Majesty the Queen , wi th their 4- 1 o. nesses the Prince and Princess of B 0 - W eleB , l ,• get Princess Helena, attended by Colonel ger—T3til Aot Major Teesdale, 8c,,3 d rove from ni 0 14 Castle shortly after ten' . o'clock ye sterday — (1 1 01' Wee to to the Windsor station of the South te rti ePo dil way, where they were conducted the , 0 14 state saloon which formed part of a E pevie l ; o re provided for the use of the roy al party, 0° „ of on the way to Claremont via Teddingta• is to pay a visit to the ex Quee n Marie Araelie' Aeld royal train left Windsor at 10.27, and Pree:o4 via Staines and Twickenham, to the u " Tea d f:tli station of the Kingston line , w here it arrice o'clock. Here two of the ro y al carriages eio Queen's being drawn by four dark greys'vrelsof rea di ne ss, while at the station an d on the ° f l e a to bridge a number of spectat ors had coGgeggcoilli catch a glimpse of the Queen and NY° ; 1 11 01 The Queen and the prince and princes ° _, - , 3 1001 entered the carriage, immediately pr oceed eu c i ot e 4 the road to Claremont, the residence o f the ea Doti ° of b France. The royal party returned to the 010 y special train in the afternoon, and arrivealloof Windsor station at 1.33. In both cases the rad-id arrangements were excellen t, and the P . : a loft' we re performed with the greatest ease and eO- 0 0 0 The trip by rail from Windsor to Teddiligt°ll pied about 35 minutes. e. 0116.. His Royal Highness the Duke of C 5131 ,7, 1 i attended by Colonel the Hon , Jame s Macdonald; "I*-I.olr l e ave town to-morrow, to honour the Earl and C°ll/1 Stradbroke with a visit at Henham Hall, Suffolk. off The Marchioness of Ormo nde and L a Stia ° utler have returned to Kilkenny Castle, from B "" ill° Abbeyleis. A fart - The Marquis and Marchioness of Ile a ' or arrived at the St. George's Hotel. 1 ' na - .1, The Earl and Countess of Westo3oo- ijoir Lord De Lisle and Dudley have left the St. 00(15°:ertoi! The Earl and Countess Albemarle Ns ill en', a large party at Quiddenham Hall, Norfolk, at , i l the month. t t bP The Earl and Countess G re y arrived p• r es idence on Carlton-house - terrac e on &t tirdill' f e e l Howick Hall, Northumberland, with th e intent °0 ing the winter in Italy. The noble earl and 0 fie. I i London yesterday for Paris, on t heir way to ft°niefi The Earl of Airlie arrived at Lord St 6 ' oily Alderley's residence in Dover-street on Saturdoi, ji e tour of several months in America. The Earl Russell and Lady GeorgiatiaA;bllet, re turned to Pembroke Lodge, Richmon d, from "'" yesterday. , C°:, Field-Marshal Viscount and Visconnteh- ( ,ti 1 b ch ermere have left Combermere Abbey to ViS it t : P er i 'oness of Downshire, at East Hampstead l' 6fr ' 1 shire. to 0t.',1 Lord and Lady Proby have returned -cjir Hall, Oundle, from visiting the Ma r q uis and Idsr of Abercorn, at Beaudesert. Lord Naas has left town for Dubli 0 ni A f l • A. Herbert, -:ito The Right Hon. Henry Mrs and Miss Herbert, have joined the partilis' Earl and Countess of Erne at Crown Castle. . 0 e SEVERE ILLNESS OF LORD DERBT.'"ititile c l i' tinue \i d illness most sincere regret that we annotioce :" - itt 0,, slay-hall visit of the Prince and Princeo ° ° D - iea t l o h f as th b e ee E n a p rl os o tp f o D ne e d rb . y, A a:d ota : v :f - w w , v lro' quence.no 'ffect was received by the Ma r isir E. ill yesterday, at the Town Hall f yo d St all -e- rom Lor ver ell of Darby for some timepast has ' been suffering se di e 0 his old co I. mp aint—gout, but within the last N W i fit. e4 o l illness has become more severe. He has bee ). co t - bt. , his room for some days, and is still suffering a w ti- ( e e il i til is attended by Mr Gorst, surgeon, of Huy ton. t'L.iio' is the more unfortunate as it will interfere with the 1r the Prince and Princess of Wales to se ° L an cashi re 4 Hi Royal ghnesse s were to arrive a t Knowsley on 'f J day, but in co nse q uence of the continued HinOf? Derby it was felt that his lordship cou d o 01)10er ld d t feare not honour to his guests. It was likewise hst e pot: citement might be detrimental to the health of ,0 earl, and it is chiefly this apprehension that 11,ortiolis the postponement of the visit of the Prince and i' f oii .j We understand that although Lord Derby is eQ , l3 f. o r bed there is no reason to believe that his OW serous.—Livopool Courier. _ . Cs 011, THE VERMONT RAID.—The Toronto L'" - D eril —" It is understood that te Confederate plan , i ll it t KA of a decisionour courts that the raiders 80-104, rendered, is to by carry an appeal to the Judicial C°l33,iiii the Privy . Council in England. It is reported he'-itol apatchede circles that the Washington Governta tr e y noticetreaty to Great Britain of its intention t o 4 0 the armament on the lakes, as a measure of 1 3113t t e :e 3 th fr e on tr t e i of th hd l i' y s o ix f G m h on en th t. s ,, notico being required a - i A GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE.---Gelirie I ro C /i nitres, Commandant of the Polytechnic Pc-o'll,l i while el the following letter from a fornaer Pti`olsrlit remainsetting an example of gratitude, w ishes 131 :g0 a l i‘ I was at the :—" General,—Some 40 Y r° o -- of' ir' j i, Polytechnic School, my family wast:Otsf a reverse of fortune to such an extent that, 1:1°•0111rt A il ivnegnerthateedstrictest economy, my mother (of e be t r ,,l l i memory) was on one occasion unable"-0, t i r t o h n e e q o u f artetly payment for my board and edize9'ti°loot'i comrades was aware of my enabarril°B.a Oa ho . mad in e y a collection among the pupils and r°3l9-001 c d pu i red 250 f without divulging my 'fame. The r: 1, 0 1 1 1 In fell y due,mother was dl puarbslue pursued intnye e e t tu s d l i i,e. : o : l 4 sti o l f debtlo imperishable reminiscences—of the benefit reee""f l)* I now approach the term of n3l' et ‘ f i tkd fore the e. close of my life, which alone will 1i 133 , 4 . to tudo towards any contemporaries, I feel botio'"60011A debt to that Polytechnic confraternity it' Wili ell ,,,' W I sentiments and such generous rP e-6 " claimsimuee.fftheeetyedu,s deeds are po / s: / , one generation to another. With that viol y i 2,000 f, praying you to employ them as err 01!dor in aiding any of our young comrades embesvo toA and who will remain unknown to me s 1 913 :0 $ 0 4 :1 Accept, my dear General, the assuranceeof 1 33 1 ' P, i guished consideration and my heartfelt thslAtilef.4.l PUFIL." The General has communicated thiP;toe p ch u a p r i g ls e i d a t a o n order of the day, and appointed fliofe make the best possible use of the 11 1 cately offered. , ,111 APPREIIE NJION OF LADY PlllllllS.ti De T MAID E. FOR OBTAINING GOODS 'UNDO •,. 41 ;6 8 Y Windsor, On Saturday, at the Borough rct•-pits ,I sor, Ellen West, a lady-like Person obr i. lle age, was brought before Mr W. H. Ilarril;itri at charged with obtaining two silk dresses, 'ati.;:dril 10 guineas, from Messrs Bird and Allen, li ll ' t Ile r ° I , High-street. The prisoner up to the tinie °- e l s(' hension had been in the service of LadY th e f rr f r 1 Colonel the Hon. C. B. phip N. c 33,, ...- t '0 ,0 1 ) Majesty's Privy Purse, residing P6' in . 11 613 /, i i ; iiti .o . r Windsor Castle. Holding this confidentila"e°;:o" pill was much respected by Lady Phipps' WM 510,ei trust in her lady's maid. On Friday West li- i i i :ed,;# f Bird and Allen's, and it is understood ob t6 b . Or oe iii . dresses, under the pretence of their being P u „ c p t' f. 1 , 1 mistress. She, however, on leaving the 011°Y JeelAtori a pawnbroker's named Radnor, inTharael;r9li purpose of raising money upon the goods. ', i e t.,0 li' seems, immediately made inquiries es ecting '' ger ilj having ascertained the mannerinr v,Phich 03%04 been obtained, the woman Wst was LlPPlrelloesi i;eq residence of Sir Charles Phipps in the O ur ' fg ) ; 0 1 1 Tho arrest of the pris finer on such a , ser i°ll , 6 ,, ell: es ie s, , arching investigation being 'made into l'l''' cc , ' fe' t' g i ty lady's-maid, and it was then discovered, f.°93,;toe '7, cates, that the prisoner had pawned articles ";,e011,041 value belonging to Lady Phipps at various P'", ot ° 4 l, don and elsewhere. Among th© atiele° ° a ..V6 jeweller)" ° o il ttt e g f" ) ; pawned, it is understood, are eonao India shawl, a present to her lidyshiP irt)flci:ilo3;ol roughly valued at upwards of 100 guineas' ,O a day Sergeant Noble was engaged in incluiriP` 60 jest of the prisoner's delinquencies, l'a4ll)° I e lO d ti l Sitti ° ' t t ° 4 for a fusther hearing. VALENTIA NEW LIFEBOAT.--"The., lifd°:o boat Institution has just forwarded a 10" oi,i'elOdl lentia, on the coast of Elei r-t SOS, lies V il the establishment, amounting to. £,508, li at3 „ ' I li 4" a benevolent person resident in Berlobv'''' t eo" ii g - r , an d Limerick Steam Ship Coptla 1°1:: pc° V m the lifeboat and carriage 0 a free coa/e;' 01l tier to Tralee. All the lifeboats, launiberios `gtittil coast, belong to the National Littboat• IP' WlOl - ] f mlltti The , 11 10 ,,, '4l ~ s tom a r o t °e nt. b ttl: C"Si Ot ko t"nti le d e t ' 6 3' ate ties ll) 891 itr.. 4 Da v 8 lA. ,_ date,, ' 4 N o . _ ill , .' 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